Airlines Virgin Atlantic joins Easyjet’s worldwide platform
The British long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic has announced to become a new partner in the platform “Worldwide by Easyjet.”
Virgin Atlantic is focusing on long-haul flights: With a fleet of over 45 Airbus and Boeing long-haul aircraft, the carrier offers daily flights to destinations in North America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia. All flights are operated from its hubs at the two airports London Heathrow and Gatwick.
With the new partnership between Easyjet and Virgin, both carriers aim at offering more connections to European destinations. Customers of Easyjet and Virgin Atlantic will be able to connect through London Gatwick Airport between flights of both carriers. Easyjet is the largest carrier at London Gatwick, operating flights to over 50 destinations in Europe. “Worldwide by Easyjet” is a partnership program for carriers, that enables customers to book connection flights with different airlines.
“Virgin Atlantic is committed to working with the best possible global partners, to offer industry leading choice and connections for our customers. EasyJet’s unbeatable Gatwick network, combined with a shared customer centric ethos, makes them the ideal fit for us. We’re delighted that customers across the UK and Europe will be able to enjoy more choice when connecting onto our flights through Gatwick and we look forward to welcoming them on board very soon,” said Craig Kreeger, CEO at Virgin Atlantic.
Earlier this month EasyJet announced that Singapore Airlines and its low cost subsidiary airline Scoot will join the ‘Worldwide by EasyJet’ global connections service, connecting EasyJet customers with South East Asia with Singapore Airlines via Milan Malpensa airport and with Scoot through Berlin Tegel.
Easyjet has reached agreements Norwegian, WestJet, Thomas Cook Airlines, Corsair, La Compagnie, Aurigny and Loganair who are already part of “Worldwide by EasyJet”. “Worldwide by Easyjet” is not a codesharing agreement. The concept is subject to a 2 hour 30 minute “Minimum Connection Time”, which gives customers enough time to transfer between the flights and terminals.
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